Construction Fixings

Lars Mortensen has been elected as the new ECAP president for 2017 – 2020, succeeding previous president, Urs Joos.

ECAP’s election was held in Lars’ hometown, Elsinore, Denmark – in front of the Kronborg Castle, where Hamlet made his famous soliloquy: “To be or not to be, that is the question.” 

There was definitely no question over Lars’ appointment as ECAP president. Belonging to the third generation in the founding family of the Danish plastic anchors manufacturer, EXPANDET Screws Anchors – today part of the Senco Group – Lars brought his firm into ECAP in 2003. Since then EXPANDET has been a very active member, engaging in the standardisation process; taking part in common research projects; proposing new services and projects and sharing its management experience with other members – all in the true spirit of ECAP. 

Following his election Lars said: “ECAP is a community of norm-sharing manufacturers. Norm-sharing means a series of cascade services, developed all around the drafting of European standards. It is not just about informing and monitoring. It means creating interactive platforms of high-tech services and sharing their management and their enormous costs; managing training courses and technical development; directly accessing, as a community, CEN and EOTA working groups at a European level; supporting the ability of technical specialists from ECAP members to participate directly in these meetings; facilitating CE Marking through ad hoc clusters of labs, TABs and Notified Bodies; and offering hotline support for normative questions on more than 55 standards and assessment documents. ECAP is a unique case in Europe, a precious tool for European manufacturers, whose activity is well known by the European Commission and in the standardisation world, if not so much outside of it. My priority for these three years is to lead a Consortium, which is not used to doing it, to speak about itself.”

Lars’ work will be supported by the newly elected board (pictured below), a pan-European management group made out of seven members coming from six different European countries: Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.